Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> writes:

> Matthias Julius, 2007-03-07 11:32:32 -0500 :
>
>> It's a matter of how someone arrives at the point where he wants to
>> help.  If he wakes up one morning and thinks "I want to help the KDE
>> team" he will probably contact the KDE maintainers.  If he thinks
>> "Since 3 years I am using Debian it's time for me to contribute." he
>> might look in more generic places to find out who requests help.
>
> In that case, I suppose http://www.debian.org/intro/help should be
> made a bit more helpful.  More visible, more readable, and so on.  I
> understand one of the DPL candidates intends to work (or get people to
> work) on the Debian website; I suggest this page could be considered
> during that endeavour.

I don't consider it to be too bad.  But it would be a good step
forward if it contained a reference to the RFH list.

Matthias